_underway_in_the_Gulf_of_Tonkin_in_December_1968.jpg) Mattaponi in the Gulf of Tonkin, 18 December 1968
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Mattaponi |
| Namesake | Mattaponi River |
| Builder | Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Chester, Pennsylvania |
| Launched | 17 January 1942 |
| Commissioned | 11 May 1942 |
| Decommissioned | 17 April 1950 |
| Recommissioned | 28 December 1950 |
| Decommissioned | 12 October 1954 |
| Recommissioned | 12 December 1956 |
| Decommissioned | 11 November 1957 |
| Stricken | 1 February 1959 |
| Reinstated | 1 September 1961 |
| Recommissioned | 30 November 1962 |
| Decommissioned | 1970 |
| Stricken | October 1970 |
| Honors and awards | 5 campaign stars (Vietnam) |
| Fate |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Mattaponi class oiler |
| Type | MARAD T2-A |
| Tonnage | 16,400 DWT |
| Displacement | 21,750 tons |
| Length | 520 ft (160 m) |
| Beam | 68 ft (21 m) |
| Draft | 29 ft 11.5 in (9.131 m) |
| Depth | 37 ft (11 m) |
| Installed power | 12,000 shp (8,900 kW) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h) |
| Range | 7,200 nmi (13,300 km; 8,300 mi) |
| Capacity | 133,000 bbl (~18,100 t) |
| Complement | 242 |
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USS Mattaponi (AO-41) was a Kennebec-class oiler which served in the United States Navy during World War II, periodically during the 1950s, and in the Vietnam War. She was the only U.S. Navy ship named for the Mattaponi River in eastern Virginia.